Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-26

l, as stated by THE GAZETTE weeks ago,
| through trains can run from Kansas City
to Gainesville, Fort Worth and Calves
all on the main line.
The St. Louis Railway Register of April
! % saws: "The fact has been whispered
around in railroad circles for some time,
| but has hardly yet attracted public atten-
ton, that the AtChison, Topeka and Santa
| Fe is at work on gigantic cutoff to its
transcontinentsl line. In less than
year it will undoubtedly have completed,
and in operation from St. Louis
to Albuquerque, N. M, a system of
roads wholly independent of its
present main line to Kansas City, and
shorter by l25 miles. In Southern Kan
sas it already has line from Kansas City
southwest to KioWa, on the border Of the
| Indian Territory. This it will shorten by
! a cutoff from Ottawa to Mulvane, which
! is already completed as far as Eureka, in
! Greenwood county. At MulVane connec-
! ton will be made with branch run
ming to Wellington, where it again joins
! the Southern Kansas. From KiOWa an
extension is now being built to Mobeetie,
! in the Panhandle of Texas. This is it's
nominal terminus, but in reality the road
! is to be pushed on at once over the old
route of the Atlantic and Pacific to con-
nectiOn with the California line at Albu-
| querque."
A we'll known railroad man connected
with the Fort Worth and Denver said to
! a GAZETTE reporter yesterday: "The COM
| pany sees it cannot reach deep water at
! Galveston; it finds from recent occur
renCes that Sabine Pass will not do, so 1t
will build from Fort Worth to Arans as
Pass, Rockport or Corpus Christs, where
deep water can be had. With this line
built Fort Worth is in a bet er
position than Chicago or st. Louis.
she has the great highway
The Atlantic ocean from New York and
ports in all countries in the world The
commodities brought to the whsrve0 Of
the Denver, Texas and Fort Worth are
transported over this direct line to your
city, and here the distribution to two
thirds of Texas, all OF Colorado, Kansas,
Indian Territory, New Mexico and even a
part of Missouri and Arkansas will be
made. 1t IS simply question of distance
and the high seas and the Denver, Texas
and Fort Worth settle the question in
favor of this city. You need not be sur
prised to see the Inauguration of the
work of building nearly direct air line
|
an early day, comparatively, surely
will simply be the carrying out
of plan mapped out generally by the
great railroad king, Tom S. Scott, who
fixed upon Fort Worth as the center OF
his system General Dodge, one of the
greatest engineers of the age, is carrying
out these plans, but has greatly improved
upon them"
In regard to the Denver, Texas anC
Fort Worth, the Chicago Railway Age OF
April % publishes the flowing: This
company has been Incorporated IN Colo
RADIO to build the connecting link between
the Fort Worth and Denver City anC
Denver, Texas and Gull roads. AS de
( scribed in the articles, the road is to ruI
A from Denver, by way of Pueblo
= through the county of. Pueblo
/ the county of Huerfano, and the
county of Las Animas, and thence through
? the counties of Colfax, Mora and Sar
e Miguel, or some of them, in the territory
of New Mexico, to point on The
boundary line between that territory anc
the state of Texas, between the thirty
t fifth and thirty-seventh parallels OF lati
tude, TO a connection with the Fort Worth
. and Denver City Rallwa; and thence
, in a southeasterlY direction through
the state of Texas to the city O.
q Fort Worth, in the county of Tar
! rant, with power to extend the railway
= on the most eligible route to the Gulf o
Mexico. Branches are to be built from
Bessemer, In Pueblo county, through
: Pueblo and Custer counties to Rosito anc
Silver Cliff; also from some point II
Huerfano county to Walsenourg anC
Huerfano park; also from some point II
Las Animas county to a point on the
. boundary line between Colorado ant
New Mexico, near where sucf
crosses Longs creek; also from {
d point on the main line in Las
+ Animas county near its crossing on Fri
t jole creek and extending into the Goa
? fields on said creek. The capital stool
: is $50, 100000, and the following are tht
j directors: Sydney Dillon, F. K. Hahn
b James Stillman, S. Tighman, all of New
; York city; Henry Lewis, Philadelphia
John Evans, Denver, and w. T. Walters
2 Baltimore. The officers for the first yea
s are: President, Sydney Dillon; vice
president, John Evans; secretary, Charle
? Wheeler; assistant secretary and treas
I urer, John T. Granger.